Brazilian Cuisine

Moqueca de peixe

Cuisine: Brazilian Created by Patricia Nunes

A marvellous seafood stew with the fresh flavours of lime and coconut and finished with Brazil’s favourite mellow dende oil.

Ingredients

5 medallions of white fish (eg. snapper) or 1 kg of prawns
1 onion, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 red capsicum, sliced
5 tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp grated ginger
5 chillies, chopped
1 cup fish or vegetable stock
Juice of 2 limes
120ml dendÃª oil (optional)
1 bunch of spring onions, finely sliced
1 bunch of coriander, chopped
250ml coconut milk

Pirao
2 cups of fish stock
2 tbsp butter
2 cups semolina
Seasoning

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Preparation

Marinate the fish in the lemon juice with one clove of garlic and seasoning for at least half an hour.

SautÃ© the onion, garlic, ginger, chillies, red capsicum and tomatoes, until a sauce is formed. Pour over stock.

Add the fish, season with rock salt and simmer gently until cooked. If using a combination of white fish and prawns, add prawns later as they require less time to cook through.

Stir through chopped coriander.

Place in serving dish and squeeze over lime juice and sprinkle with spring onions and extra coriander leaves.

Drizzle over dendÃª oil.
Serve with rice and pirao.

Pirao
Bring the stock to the boil
Add the butter and the semolina slowly, mixing well.
Cook on slow heat till desired consistency, season and serve with moqueca.
You can add small prawns to it as well.

Brazilian Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 32 Brazilian Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Rio's Brazilian Restaurant	Richmond
2.	Wildfire	Sydney
3.	Copacabana International	Fitzroy
4.	Brazilian Touch Restaurant & Bar	Milton
5.	BlueFire Churrascaria Grill & Bar	Docklands
6.	BlueFire Churrascaria Grill and Bar	Main Beach
7.	Favela	Potts Point
8.	Fiesta on Oxford	Bondi Junction
9.	Churrasco	Coogee
10.	Braza Churrascaria	Leichhardt

13 Mar 2012 12:52 AEST

Mara

Randwick NSW

where to find 'azeite de dende' in Sydney

I bought 'azeite de dende' at the Brazilian restaurant in Petersham, NSW. I believe that the Brazilian online food shop also sells it.

06 Aug 2011 08:38 AEST

Marcia

Bondi Junction

Dende oil

I just cooked this recipe, it turned up delicious, I just didin't use all the fish stock, only half of it. I also used olive oil instead of dende oil. You can find dende oil in Newtown - Sydney, I think is king Street and there is a African food store there and they have dende oil. I bought there years ago. I don't know if they still there..

14 Apr 2011 04:23 AEST

Marcy

Edinburgh

Coconut milk

Coconut milk goes together the fish stock, don't use vegetable stock!!! I'm Brazilian..

24 Jun 2010 04:19 AEST

Lyn

Palm Beach

Recipe Eror

What happened to the coconut milk/cream???

14 Jan 2010 04:45 AEST

missweb84

Sydney

dende/palm oil subs

You can get an alternate palm oil in woolworths, it's red fruit palm oil next to the olive oil :)

23 Dec 2009 06:43 AEST

Marks

Perth

It is now very easy to buy your ethnic food

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19 Jul 2009 12:04 AEST

Emanuel Tonna (e_tonna@hotmail.com)

Paralowie South Australia

Moqueca de Peixe (Fish Cooked in Coconut and Dende Oil)

I believe that the recipe as it stand on the web site is missing an ingredeient, namely the coconut flavour.I believe that it should include some coconut cream or milk and I am going on what it says ,"A marvellous seafood stew with the fresh flavours of lime and coconut ". Can you please clarify and contact me on the above email address as I love ot prepare this dish. Ardent viewer of SBS Food Safari Regards Emanuel

29 May 2009 09:50 AEST

Colin

Canberra ACT

This recipe is fantastic!

I highly recommend this recipe to anyone who likes seafood, chilli and coconut. I love laksa as well and this is somewhat similar. I modified the recipe into a "Moqueca de Galinha e Camarão", replacing the fish with chopped chicken breast, the fish stock with chicken stock, and I added 400mL of coconut cream at the same point the stock goes in, making a much smoother and creamier dish. Camarão means prawns, so I left them in as well. Served on a bed of Pirao (the semolina). Delicious!

29 May 2009 09:42 AEST

Colin

Canberra ACT

RE: Dende Oil

@Lisa, yes it is difficult to track down - I live in Canberra and have not found any locally. I did quite a bit of searching (I even called the Brazilian embassy), and found that a company called Solarben International Foods does indeed import legit Dende/Palm oil. Check their stockists page and try making some calls. I called Fiji Market in Newtown, Sydney, and they could ship me 1 or 2 litres (can't remember which) for about $20, if I recall correctly: http://www.westafricanfoods.com.au/

28 May 2009 12:53 AEST

Lisa

Redland QLD

Dende Oil

Does anyone know where I can buy Dende/Palm oil. So far I've only seen Carotena oil here in Australia which is not quite the same

19 Feb 2009 07:57 AEST

Fabio

Victoria Park

Missing Coconut Milk

The coconut missing there in my view would be the coconut milk. Instead of pouring over vegetable stock, pour over about 300ml of coconut milk. That would enrich the flavour a fair bit more. You also don't need to add the dende/palm oil at the end. You can add it with the coconut milk. This is a modern western take of the dish. The more traditional one (and more widely eaten in Brazil) would have the coconut milk and the dende/palm oil added in place of of the vegetable stock.

02 Jan 2009 11:59 AEST

Lenore

North Rockhampton

What coconut?

Coconut not mentioned in recipeut featured in blurb. Where does it come in?

04 Dec 2008 01:02 AEST

liz

manly

Coconut?

when do you add the coconut "fresh flavours of lime and coconut "

02 Dec 2008 06:54 AEST

Shelley

Freshwater

Amazing

This dish looks amazing!

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